I agree with HeyYou. If these transmissions are mechanically built correctly then there is very little to go wrong. People talk about how bad these transmissions are but I feel like it's more of an issue with owner maintenance than poor engineering.

 

edit: no longer correct

 

Question becomes, which parts do they replace when they rebuild them? Some parts, drums, planetaries, etc, are certainly re-useable, but, the 'failure prone' parts should be replaced......

 

Edit: no longer correct.

 

Well, I've gotta eat some crow.

I was tinkering around with the trans last night just racking my brain and reading a lot of threads about what might cause the issues I was having. While looking around, I discovered that the plastic end of the TV cable was partially snapped off and no longer attached to the throttle body. You could get it to attach back on, but it wasn't very secure. I didn't think too much of it, zip tied it on, ordered a new one, and went to bed. The truck had been very sluggish that morning so I assumed it had broken that morning.

Woke up this morning to run errands and found that all of my issues were resolved. Apparently the part must have broken back when the symptoms first began. It all makes sense really, because without throttle input, the transmission thought it was operating at idle all the time, hence explaining the low pressure test readings and the slippage.

I never thought to check the TV cable while diagnosing the issue (apparently neither did the tranny shop) because I had adjusted it less than a year ago after doing some engine work. I figured there was no way it had come out of adjustment on it's own since then. I never anticipated that the bastard might have just broke haha.

So I've issued my apologies to ETE Reman, and wanted to set the record straight here as well. I've edited all posts where I ranted about their poor quality. I still can't say I necessarily recommend them, because their first unit did fail of it's own accord, but at the very least I can't blame them for the most recent issue, that's on me.

Thanks.

 

Well, a cheap and easy fix. My favorite kind.

 

Mine too! Although I prefer the kind where I discover it before making an *** of myself...haha

 

Details, details.....

 

I'm glad that's all it was.